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First time’s the charm: Northern Nash’s Sullivan makes history with tournament finish

BY SAMUEL EVERS Sports Writer Tuesday, February 5, 2019
When Northern Nash’s Sidney Sullivan was a seventh-grader at Red Oak Middle School, after a few inquiries directed toward her father, Rodney, who also went to Northern Nash, she found out he was both a high school wrestler and football player. The football part didn’t interest her much, but the wrestling part was intriguing enough to go ahead and try out for the middle school team. She even convinced four other girls to try out the sport with her. Since, that list of five, because of other sports or other personal reasons, has dwindled down to just Sullivan, now a freshman for the Knights, who has carried on with wrestling undeterred. This season, Sullivan was the only girl on the Knights’ team, and the only girl wrestler in the Big East to make it to the state invitational this past weekend. So, a lot of regional pride was following her on Saturday, when her, her mother, Tammy, and Northern Nash’s assistant coach Bryan Sweet loaded up Sweet’s car and headed to the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Annex for the first-ever NCHSAA Women’s Wrestling Invitational Tournament. Rest of the story at http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/High-Schools/2019/02/05/Northern-Nash-s-Sullivan-makes-history-with-tournament-finish.html

Northern Nash wrestler Sidney Sullivan, 15, poses while wearing her NCHSAA third place medal on Tuesday at Northern Nash High School. Sullivan placed third in her weight class on Saturday during the inaugural NCHSAA Women’s Wrestling Invitational Tournament in Winston-Salem.

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